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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2014 Jul 23;25(9):921–929. doi: 10.1111/jce.12474

TABLE 3.

Acute Characteristics of AF Sources

Characteristic All Patients
N = 78
First Ablation
N = 40
Prior Failed PVI
N = 38
P value
Patients mapped 76 38 38
Patients with detected sources 76/76 (100%) 38/38 (100%) 38/38 (100%) 1.0
 No. patients with sources in LA vs RA 71/39 35/16 36/23
 No. concurrent biatrial AF sources/patient 2.3 ± 0.9 2.1 ± 0.8 2.4 ± 0.9 0.08
 No. of LA sources/patient 1.8 ± 0.7 1.8 ± 0.6 1.9 ± 0.8 0.49
 No. of RA source/patient 1.1 ± 0.3 1.1 ± 0.3 1.1 ± 0.3 0.96
 LA/RA sources, as % of total sources 74.7%/25.3% 76.8%/23.2% 73.8%/26.2% 0.63
Total FIRM-ablation time, all sources (min, Mean ± SD) 16.6 ± 11.7 14.7 ± 11.3 18.5 ± 11.8 0.20

AF = atrial fibrillation; LA = left atrium; RA = right atrium.